Are you ready to elevate your understanding of reliability during design to the next level? This episode is an absolute must-listen! I'm your host, Dianna Deeney, and I'll help you dissect the world of reliability life testing in design. We'll explore how the integration of critical reliability data into the decision-making process can revolutionize your design approach.

Ever felt confused by accelerated stress testing? You're not alone. This episode will give you an in-depth understanding of this subset of reliability life testing methods and when to use it in your design process. We'll also discuss the importance of reliability prediction methods and how to effectively test your own products. You'll learn why accelerated stress testing is crucial, how to interpret the results, and most importantly, how to apply them to influence your design decisions. So, let's get started and ensure our designs are as reliable as they are innovative.

This is a Quality during Design Redux episode, originally "Results-Driven Decisions, Faster: Accelerated Stress Testing as a Reliability Life Test".  Visit the podcast blog, here.

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When you design a product, you consider the field reliability. Use environment usually comes to mind first. Do you also consider the stresses it undergoes from its creation to the end user's hands? 

We talk about designing for reliability, accounting for not just the product's use but also its journey from production to the consumer. As a part of our in-depth discussion, we'll look into the role of various environments - field and production - in affecting a product's reliability.

By the end of this episode, you'll see field reliability as including the various stresses acting on a product from its inception. So, buckle up as we embark on this journey to rethink reliability during design.

Visit the podcast blog for links to other podcast episodes to take these ideas further.

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We're continuing to explore topics about reliability engineering during design.

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We have a reliability target for our system. But we're not meeting it.

To avoid this scenario, what is something we can do in early development? 

When we're figuring out our concept, we can better learn about our options. We can work with Reliability Engineers to understand what we know, the risk in what we don't know, and to prioritize reliability of the modules to be able to meet the reliability of our whole system.

We talk about using reliability allocation to help us choose reliability goals for modules of our product design.

There is much more on the podcast blog: graphics, lists, and extra links.  Be sure to visit it at the website!

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Dianna Deeney interviews Adam Bahret about reliability engineering during design: how product design engineers and product development leadership can incorporate reliability engineering.

This interview is part of our series, “A Chat with Cross Functional Experts". Our focus is speaking with people that are typically part of a cross-functional team within engineering projects. We discuss their viewpoints and perspectives regarding new products, the values they bring to new product development, and how they're involved and work with product design engineering teammates.

About Adam

Adam Bahret is the founder of Apex Ridge Consulting and a leading reliability expert who writes, speaks and coaches executive teams on reliability as a competitive edge. His reliability-culture change program has delivered millions in savings for clients while mitigating risk and forming a foundation for reliability-fueled growth and brand dominance. His clients range across multiple industry segments, including medical devices, robotics, semiconductor, aerospace, consumer, and automotive.

Adam works with technical teams to improve the design while mentoring leadership teams in adopting the processes, language, and behaviors to build a reliability culture. He also introduces key reliability metrics such as “time-to-reliability” that guide organizational thinking and build a robust reliability culture that’s the hallmark of dominant top-performing technology companies.

Adam has deep technical expertise and over 25 years of experience in product development and reliability engineering. He has an MS in Mechanical Engineering from Northeastern University, is an ASQ nationally certified reliability engineer, and an international speaker on technology, leadership, and product development. More information on Adam and Apex Ridge can be found at www.apexridge.com.

Adam and Dianna talk about:

• What "time to reliability" is, and how it can be us

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Part of Quality during Design is using reliability engineering as part of the design process.

We're warming up to the topic this week with a QDD Redux episode - pulling an episode from our archive from last year that's a good overview of some things we'll be getting more into.

Next week, I'm interviewing a Reliability Engineer as part of the series A Chat with Cross-Functional Experts.  You won't want to miss it!

So, let's stretch and warm-up to Reliability during Design!
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We're uncovering risks during our new product development, about our design. How do we manage risks? What options do we have?

There are at least 5 options we can take to manage risks. We talk about each, and how quality and reliability methods and techniques may help us with the next steps to be able to make decisions with our team.

Visit the podcast blog for links to episodes that explore concepts a little deeper.

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We do projects all the time. Some projects are about developing new things, and others are about improving what we have – continuous improvement. 

In the quality realm, there's what they call the instant glory model. This same kind of thing can happen in product design, too.

We talk about what quality folks call an instant glory, and what to do about it in product design engineering.

 Visit the podcast blog for extra links.

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Virtual meetings are here to stay.

What does this mean when product design engineers are trying to get design inputs from the cross-functional team?

It means we need to adapt and to show that we're consistent and that we can be trusted to facilitate the meeting within time and with goals achieved.

Visit the podcast blog.

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We've been talking about how to best work with our cross-functional team at early concept development - to use quality and reliability tools in working meetings to really understand the concept space as a way to design for how the customer may experience our new concept idea.

Coming out of our talks make be questions about unknowns or misalignments. We may need to meet our customers where they're at to get clarity.

When engineers say, "I'd like to talk with a customer about this," we usually get push-back.

We need to tackle objections and remove obstacles between design engineers and their customers. For ideas, I've pulled an episode from the archive, originally published December 2021.

Listen-in to learn how we can take next steps in the concept space when visiting customers.

See the podcast blog for some more information.  

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Dianna Deeney interviews Sol Rosenbaum about engineering with receptivity: how an openness toward others for new impressions and different ideas can lead to a successful engineering career.

This interview is part of our series, “A Chat with Cross Functional Experts". Our focus is speaking with people that are typically part of a cross-functional team within engineering projects.

About Sol

Sol Rosenbaum graduated with a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering and is currently the Owner & Managing Engineer of a small firm providing engineering support and energy analysis to commercial properties as part of the mortgage financing process. He also has a passion for mentoring younger engineers and founded The Engineering Mentor where he provides material geared towards younger engineers and helping them along in their engineering journey.

Sol and Dianna talk about:

• Differences in project work, in seeing things through from project start-to-finish or becoming an expert in one aspect of a project.
• How new technologies make things more efficient, and how an understanding of the underlying basics is needed, too.
• The importance of showing up with openness and humility.
• What types of things experienced engineers can do to help less experienced engineers.
• How less experienced engineers can approach teamwork and their important contributions.

Visit the podcast blog for a link to Sol's website of resources and his other recommendations.

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Introducing "Pierce the Design Fog" by Dianna Deeney, the essential guide to turning abstract ideas into high-quality products. This book offers a proven playbook with practical frameworks and tools to help you foster team synergy, lead with vision, and ma

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We take these wishes...
"I wish I had the cross functional input that I need for design inputs."
"I wish I could work with my cross functional team."
"I wish my team would accept my design idea."

...and we add a plan to make them a GOAL.

We plan for what it is we want and how we're going to get there using Quality during Design.

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Introducing "Pierce the Design Fog" by Dianna Deeney, the essential guide to turning abstract ideas into high-quality products. This book offers a proven playbook with practical frameworks and tools to help you foster team synergy, lead with vision, and ma

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